Jody Williams

Jody Williams appears in the following:

A New Cookbook from Beloved Restaurant Via Carota

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

The owners of the NYC restaurant Via Carota join to preview their new cookbook.

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Nashville Bob

Friday, May 31, 2013

How do you get to Nashville's famed Bluebird Cafe, the launch pad of dozens of country music's biggest stars? If you're Bob Garfield - and you're trying to make it big in country music in less than 36 hours - "practice, practice, practice" is not an option. Luckily, Bob has chutzpah, and a brilliant song, just waiting for a record exec to bite. In this piece from 1996, Bob goes on a journey to pen the next country music hit.

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Jody Williams' Path to the Nobel Peace Prize

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Jody Williams, anti-landmine activist, and author of My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize, talks about her activism and her work on women's issues through the Nobel Women's Initiative.

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International Mine Ban Treaty

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams talks about the Obama Administration's mixed messages on whether the United States will sign the International Mine Ban Treaty, which 156 nations are party to. She’ll also discuss the work of her organization, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.

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Darfur/Burma

Monday, September 29, 2008

Nobel Peace Prize laureates Jody Williams, Wangari Maathai and actress Mia Farrow talk about their new report on Darfur and Burma.

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Learning

Monday, September 29, 2008

Lawmakers reached a tentative agreement on a bailout plan over the weekend, but what exactly will it bring? And, education may have faded into the background recently, but Barack Obama and John McCain still have ambitious plans for reform. Thirty Issues in Thirty Days continues with a discussion on K-12 ...